NFPA App Provides First Responders With Guidance on Electric/Hybrid Vehicles

NFPA has created a new mobile app for first responders on how to handle incidents involving electric and hybrid vehicles. NFPA says that such vehicles present "their own layout of batteries and cables that can be hazardous unless you know here to find the safe points to cut during an extrication."

The agency's NFPA EV Guide app or the NFPA/Moditech Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Emergency Field Guide (as titled in Apple iTunes), is designed for electric and hybrid vehicle incidents involving damaged high-voltage batteries, battery fixes, extrication challenges, submersion and charging stations. According to NFPA, the app features 32 new vehicles and updated technical data provided by manufacturers.